The bandwidth available on our network links has been growing much more rapidly than the performance of our CPU cores. In response, the host network stack has seen a great deal of innovation.

This session will cover the technologies that make very high performance networking possible on commodity servers and networks, with a special focus on kernel bypass technologies including sockets acceleration and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization).

These techniques give user-space applications direct access the network adapter hardware, making possible sub-microsecond latencies and millions of messages per second per thread.